Alistair's Europe Tour May-June 2024

Alistair's Europe Summer Tour 2024 full tour schedule

Please join me on my summer tour, 2024. I'll be traveling from Scandinavia to Spain!

The classes will be

-- Heart of Agile Masterclass, the original
-- Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps, totally original
-- Elephant Carpaccio, How to grow initiatives for maximum value & learning
-- Hexagonal Architecture, for programmers and architects

Dates, places, registration links:
(Note: Don't try to register from this page! Go to the actual event page, please!)

• May 20-21: London. The only 2-day Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps class on the tour!
  
• May 23: Stockholm: Heart of Agile Masterclass.
  
• May 24: Stockholm: Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps.
  
• May 27: Aarhus: Hot topics in Agile, keynote at GoTo;Aarhus
• May 28: Aarhus: Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps.
  
• May 29: Copenhagen: Heart of Agile Masterclass.
  
• May 30: Copenhagen: Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps.
• June 3: Munich: Heart of Agile Masterclass..
• June 5: Munich: Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps.
  
• June 6: Zurich: Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps.
• June 7: Zurich: Heart of Agile Masterclass.
  
• June 13: Sevilla: El Corazón de la Agilidad (en español).
• June 14: Sevilla: Elephant Carpaccio: Slicing Initiatives. Morning half-day.
• June 14: Sevilla: Hexagonal Architecture Full-day.
• June 27: Barcelona: El Corazón de la Agilidad, en Castellano.
  

Quick summary of the classes being offered: 

Heart of Agile Masterclass (1 day)

Agile has become overly decorated. Simplifying it to just the four words: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve, not only recovers the
original sense of the movement, but also makes it more powerful and easier to learn. This course will leave you with many ideas for how to improve your project. You will also obtain a Heart of Agile Level A certificate. Join Agile Manifesto co-author Alistair Cockburn for an exploration of the center, the essence, the heart of Agile.

Unifying user stories, use cases, story maps (1 day or 2 day)

It has long been a mystery how to put these techniques together. Finally, use case expert and Agile Manifesto co-author Alistair Cockburn shows how to integrate them, starting with the mistakes (and how to fix them) common to all three.

The 1-day class can only be a taste-test, since it covers: The common concepts needed to make any of the techniques work, then user stories, then use cases, then how to map them, and finally how story mapping fits with both of those. At the end of the day, you will understand the basics of how to use any of all them.

The 2-day class contains all of the 1-day class, but with more time to practice use case writing, slicing those to user stories, and building a story map from a use case and slicing down to a user story set suitable for 1st delivery.

Elephant Carpaccio, or How to slice initiatives to maximize value (1/2 day)

An intense and fun half-day for all roles from executive to business, project manager, and programmer, learning to finely slice and then grow a system for maximum business effect in the shortest time, with growth stages for pivoting, minimizing risk, and changing directions based on market responses. 

The learning is visceral. The punchline of the workshop is using a spreadsheet or programming to try to beat the clock and develop a small system in five 8-minute sprints! Business people and programmers alike leave this workshop changed, with a new appreciation for the value of fine-grained development, and the skills to apply it in their own.

Haremos también en español:

Carpaccio de Elefante, o Cómo segmentar iniciativas para maximizar el valor

Un medio día intenso y divertido para todos los roles, desde ejecutivo hasta empresa, gerente de proyectos y programador, donde aprenderá a dividir con precisión y luego hacer crecer un sistema para lograr el máximo efecto comercial en el menor tiempo, con etapas de crecimiento para pivotar, minimizar el riesgo y cambiar de dirección en función de las respuestas del mercado.

El aprendizaje es visceral. El remate del taller es usar una hoja de cálculo o programación para intentar ganarle al reloj y desarrollar un pequeño sistema ¡en cinco sprints de 8 minutos! Tanto los empresarios como los programadores salen de este taller cambiados, con una nueva apreciación del valor del desarrollo detallado y las habilidades para aplicarlo por su cuenta.

Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters) (1 day)

The morning is spent in the Elephant Carpaccio workshop, to anchor the idea of nano-incremental programming, which is used in the afternoon Hexagonal Architecture workshop. The afternoon is spent programming a sample problem using the Ports & Adapters pattern.

Following a lecture on just what is why to use the Ports & Adapters Architecture, the programmers break into teams to develop, test-first, a small application that starts only with test harnesses and ends connected to a UI and a database.

Haremos también en Castellano:

La Architectura Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters)

La mañana se pasa en el taller Elephant Carpaccio, para anclar la idea de programación nano-incremental, que se utiliza en el taller de Arquitectura Hexagonal de la tarde. Se dedica la tarde a programar un problema de muestra utilizando el patrón Puertos y adaptadores.

Después de una conferencia sobre por qué usar la arquitectura de puertos y adaptadores, los programadores se dividen en equipos para desarrollar, primero probando, una pequeña aplicación que comienza solo con arneses de prueba y termina conectada a una interfaz de usuario y una base de datos.

About the teacher:

Dr. Alistair Cockburn (pronounced CO-BURN) was named as one of the “42 Greatest Software Professionals of All Times" in 2020, as a world expert on methodologies, project management, software architecture, use cases and agile development. He co-authored both the Agile Manifesto and the Project Management Declaration of Inter-dependence. Since 2015 he has been working on expanding agile to cover every kind of initiative, including social impact project, governments, and families. He has also worked to unify the seemingly contradictory user stories, use cases and story maps. His "Hexagonal Architecture" is now considered an architectural foundation stone, being taught in universities. For his latest work, see https://alistaircockburn.com/.